In conjunction with that report, we talked with community leaders listed below and asked them to share perspectives about Glasscock.

Has Glasscock ever passed on being involved in an important community issue? “I’ve certainly never seen it. And I’ve worked with him on a lot of projects. He’s always willing to sit and think with you. But what makes him different is he is willing to commit personally to make things happen.”- Jerry Ambramson, Kentucky lieutenant governor and former Louisville mayor

“We’ve been on opposite sides of transactions. He’s a first-class guy to work with. The kind of deals we do, both sides try to get there and try to make it work.

“Some guys … try to find ways to keep things from happening. He’s the exact opposite. He finds ways to make deals work when both sides want to get there.” - Rick Northern, partner and corporate law attorney with Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP

“I think Ed is a true gentleman. He wants to win like everyone, but he’s very much under control all the time. He is professional in everything he does. He doesn’t lose his cool too often. He’s not like me.” - Rick Pitino, University of Louisville men’s basketball coach and a partner with Glasscock in owning several racehorses

“We’ve been in several partnerships that looked like they might not go down. And through his hard work and persistence, really, and tenacity, they ended up going down. That’s not lore, that’s true. He’s got a good legal mind. … Ed, he will bulldog and bulldog until it’s done.” - Dan Ulmer, chairman of the Louisville Bats baseball team and former president and chairman of PNC Bank, Kentucky Inc.

“He is the Energizer Bunny in that he is just so active and so energetic and so enthusiastic and so involved in so many things. And he has very savvy judgment in being able to gauge people. … He is very tenacious. He is very persistent, and he is very perceptive. He knows how to work with people. He knows what buttons to push.” - Jim Patterson, a longtime client, friend and investment partner, and a restaurant icon

“One of the lessons I learned from Ed is that Ed always wins. If he has a setback, he’ll fight in a different direction. But he’ll keep going. He just keeps going. The NBA discussions (that failed to bring a team to Louisville) were a setback, but all the momentum that came from all that was key to building a downtown, multipurpose arena, which is now the Yum! Center.” - Joe Reagan, former president and CEO of Greater Louisville Inc., the metro chamber of commerce and now president and CEO of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association

Glasscock was a key player in negotiations to merge in 2000 the former Cincinnati-based Frost & Jacobs LLP with Louisville’s former Brown, Todd & Heyburn PLLC to form Frost Brown Todd LLC. “He was a great consensus builder and had a great, what I call, a can-do attitude. He had run Brown Todd for a long time. He didn’t have to merge. He had a very successful career. … He was concerned about the future of the younger lawyers. It was about what the next generation is going to get.” - Richard Erickson, former co-managing partner at Frost Brown Todd LLC’s Cincinnati office